8:07 AM,
Oct. 1, 2012

Written by

Jeff Eckhoff
The Des Moines Register

With five weeks to go before voters decide whether he'll keep his job, Iowa Supreme Court Justice David Wiggins appears to be on firmer footing than his ousted colleagues were two years ago, a new Des Moines Register Iowa Poll shows.

Forty-nine percent of likely voters want to retain Wiggins, who participated in the court's landmark 2009 ruling that legalized same-sex marriage in Iowa. Forty-one percent say they'll vote to remove him from office. Nine percent aren't sure how they'll vote, and 1 percent intend to skip voting on the question.